Name: River Of Misery
Channel: RJ Reid
Description: Free MP3 download. Country, Blues Rock number

River Of Misery

RJ Reid

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RJ Reid

The soulful, burning original blues rock of guitarist RJ Reid. Backed by Bass, Drums, keys and Sax, this burning guitarist has been seen and heard from Salt lak

RJ Reid is a Songwriter/Composer and Blues/Rock performer who resides on the Front Range of Colorado. Reid was born in Texas and reared in Montana. Reid started playing guitar at the age of 8 and started his first band at age 12. Durint the 80's and early 90's Reid worked as a lead guitarist in a variety of professional agency bands. In the mid 90's Reid formed his own band and started performing his original Blues/Rock originals touring from Salt Lake City to Chicago at Harley rallies, Car and Bike Shows , and Blues clubs and lounges. Music from Reid's first CD "The Guitar Highway" has been featured on over 300 stations in the US. Two wheeler fans from around the country have nicknamed Reid the "Mr. Burn" of the Strat guitar. Reid has even played with the legendary Brian Auger.

Song Info

Genre

Blues • Blues Rock

Charts

#6,482 today Peak #10

#2,835 in subgenre Peak #5

Author

RJ Reid

Rights

2004

Uploaded

March 03, 2005

Track Files

MP3

MP3 3.0 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00

Story behind the song

I had this musician that worked for me in my band, he still tours occasionally with me, that would show up on my wife and I's doorstep like every two months to stay for about a week because his live-in girlfriend would kick him out the the condo HE owned. So after enduring this for about a year and a half I wrote this song for him. What is really unbelievable is after leaving this woman, he went back and married her. He's still paddling upstream.

Lyrics

Woke up neck deep in water,
In a flood of emotional debris.
I can't keep treading water
While you drown us in this apathy.
Going to make my way to the shoreline 
And set myself free.
No more paddling upstream baby 
On your river of misery.

Take this chain from around my neck,
Take this anchor hooked to my feet.
No more struggling against your current babe,
I quit fighting something I can't beat.
Woke up neck deep in water,
In a flood of emotional debris.
I can't keep treading water
While you drown us in this apathy.
Going to make my way to the shoreline 
And set myself free.
No more paddling upstream baby 
On your river of misery.

Your heart's a rumbling eddy,
I was so love blind I could'nt see.
I'm dying from this malaise woman,
On this your river of misery.
break/ then stanza wih guitar solo in between stanzas, then guitar solo taking the tune home after stanzas.

On your River of misery
On your River of misery 
On your River of misery 
On your River of misery

Guitar solo out

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